Overview
- Iran will hold public viewings, processions and religious rites across Tehran, Qom and Mashhad and in Najaf and Karbala, with ceremonies set to run from July 4 to July 9 and burial scheduled in Mashhad.
- Officials have built large viewing platforms at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla, imposed city closures and transport restrictions, and mobilised security forces to manage the millions of mourners authorities expect.
- Iran’s Assembly of Experts has reported Mojtaba Khamenei as successor but he has not appeared in public, leaving questions about the new supreme leader’s visibility and domestic legitimacy.
- Tehran says roughly 30 foreign delegations will attend and has invited senior Indian figures; New Delhi plans a lower‑level delegation led by the minister of state for external affairs and a state governor.
- The Supreme National Security Council reiterated that the 'file on avenging' Khamenei remains open, a statement that keeps the risk of retaliation and regional tensions high after the February 28 strike.